A 34 year old Italian nurse by name Daniela Trezzi took her own life after testing positive for coronavirus. She thought it wise of doing this due to the people she thinks had been infected, a nursing federation has revealed.
Daniela Trezzi, works on the front line of the coronavirus crisis at a hospital in Lombardy, the most infected region of Italy.
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The National Federation of Nurses of Italy confirmed her death and expressed its “painful”
The federation said the nurse had been suffering “heavy stress” because she was scared she was spreading the virus while trying to help bring the crisis under control.
Italy’s death toll surged again yesterday with 743 new cases recorded in a day, burying the hopes of many.
However, the total number of infections rose by just eight per cent – the smallest level since Italy registered its first death on February 21.
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Daniela Trezzi had been working on the intensive care ward but was in quarantine after showing coronavirus symptoms and testing positive for the disease.
‘Each of us has chosen this profession for good and, unfortunately, also for bad: we are nurses,’ the federation quizzed.
‘The condition and stress to which our professionals are subjected is under the eyes of all.’
The general manager of San Gerardo hospital, Mario Alparone , said Daniela had been at home sick since March 10, and that ‘she was not under surveillance’.
Judicial authorities are now investigating her death, according to local media.
Figures released by an Italian research institute showed that some 5,760 health workers had been infected with coronavirus.
Nino Cartabellotta, the head of the Gimbe foundation which collected the data, urged that this ‘phenomemon’ must be ‘curbed to safeguard those who take care of us’.
The 5,760 medical workers make up around eight per cent of Italy’s total cases, which rose to 69,176 in the latest figures on Tuesday.
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